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Unlike Yale, Cornell, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard has no independent graduate school of the arts, nor any plans to fund graduate-level work in the practice of art. And ever since spring 2001, when the chair of the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department was dismissed and Summers was named president, the University’s commitment to the arts has come under fire. Critics argue that Harvard’s archaic reluctance to recognize and incorporate the arts into its academic mission may discourage talented prospective students from choosing Harvard and threaten its prestige...
...19th century, scientific research would never have received academic credit; only the study of the history of science was material for the classroom. Some study of the practice arts emerged at the recommendation of the 1955 Brown Report, a still-cited product of a committee on the visual arts at Harvard chaired by John Nicholas Brown. The Brown report attempted to debunk what it called “the myth of the inspired idiot [which] denies any serious intellectual component in artistic creation.” It was the suggestions of the Brown Report—and the convenient donation...
Those outside the small Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department have long complained that the department’s courses and facilities often exclude non-concentrators. This problem has prompted a number of efforts to locate additional studio and exhibition space that is not limited to VES students...
According to Nancy Selvage, who directs the Ceramics Program at the Office for the Arts (OFA), VES concentrators can occasionally display their final projects in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts or Hilles Library...
According to Gogel and Conrad, exhibition spaces are a means of creating a cohesive and interactive community among the many students who love visual arts but are not VES concentrators...